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I acknowledge the Wurundjeri clan of the Woiwurrung nation, one of the five Kulin Nations of central Victoria, as the original and traditional owners of this unceded land on which I live and work. I pay respect to their people and their elders past, present and emerging and those who have left us now in the Dreamtime.
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I am an artist living and working in Naarm Melbourne. My practice has centred on notions of presence and dualities through works-on-paper installations, alternative printmaking, animation and the Artist’s Book. In 2009 I was awarded a practice-based PhD from Victoria University, exploring portraiture in light of notions of Diaspora.
Over the past few years, I have been expanding my works-on-paper to moving imagery through printmaking and digital animation methods. My work can be found in public collections of the National Gallery of Australia, State Libraries of Queensland and Victoria, the University of Melbourne, Deakin Art Gallery, the Australian War Memorial and the Israel Museum.
I have worked extensively as an artist with community organisations and as a lecturer and teacher in Visual Arts at Deakin University. Since 2009, a major part of my practice has been a series of Afghan-Australian art projects named Unfolding Projects, revealing unanticipated understandings of women in Afghanistan and the potency of direct exchanges of mark making
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS
Doctor of Philosophy (Practice-based Visual Arts Research)
Victoria University Melbourne
Master of Arts (Practice-based Visual Arts Research)
Monash University Caulfield
Graduate Diploma (Printmaking)
Monash University Gippsland
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SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2025
While We Are Waiting
Burnie Art Gallery, Tasmania
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2021
Making Marks: Australia and Afghanistan
Counihan Gallery in Brunswick, Melbourne
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Melbourne Women in Film Festival 2021 (MWFF)
ACMI Melbourne
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2021
Art in the Time of Covid-19
The Barn, Montsalvat
Shire of Nillumbik commission
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2019
Beyond the Veil, Women's Art, Markers XI
Artlife for the World Gallery and Saturna and International Hotel,
Concurrent to the 58 Venice Biennale, Venice
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2018
Expanding Print
Impact 10 International Printmaking Conference
CASYC UP, Santander, Spain
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Revisiting, Rethinking and Return
Impact 10 International Printmaking Conference
ESTN – University of Cantabria,
Santander, Spain
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2017
Slow Viewing Reading
Langford120 Melbourne
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2017
The Image Unbound
Byron Writers Festival and Byron School of Arts, Lone Goat Gallery, NSW
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2015
Ego
Drawing International Brisbane
Griffith Centre for Creative Arts Research, Brisbane
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2014
People I have worked with, People I have worked for and friends: Illustrated and other books; assembled by George Matoulas
Gallery Langford120 Melbourne
Eyfo Hayit Sheze Kara (Where were you when it happened?)
Zezeze Gallery Tel Aviv Israel​
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2012
Dear Daughter
Trocadero Artspace Melbourne
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2011
Unfolding Projects
Impact7 Intersections and Counterpoints Exhibition
Monash University Melbourne
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2008
The Anonymous Portrait
Upstairs Flinders Lane Melbourne
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2003
Works on Paper
Gasworks Arts Park Melbourne
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2002
Out of the Dark
Australian Print Workshop Melbourne
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2001
Facing the Absent
Upstairs Fitzroy Melbourne
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1999
Echoes
Helen Gory Gallerie Melbourne
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1997
Beyond the Narrative
Helen Gory Gallerie Melbourne​​​
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COLLECTIONS
National Gallery of Australia
State Library of Victoria
State Library of Queensland
University of Melbourne
Bibliotheca Librorum apud Artificem
Deakin University Gallery
Australian War Memorial
Israel Museum
Breastscreen Victoria
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RESIDENCIES
2020-21
Visiting Fellow, Institute of Post Colonial Studies (IPCS)
Melbourne
2019 & 2020
Ralph Woodford Residency (invited artist)
Byron School of Art, NSW
2015
Inside Zone artist’s residency
Borsec, Transylvania
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PUBLICATIONS
Barbara Kameniar, Gali Weiss, Mursal Nazari, 2023 'New Hope/Omid Now: Supporting Afghan Women to Access Higher Education by Reimagining the Sustainable Development Goals'. In Education and the UN Sustainable Development Goals, eds Kim Beasy, Caroline Smith, Jane Watson. TAS: Springer.
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Weiss, Gali; Kameniar, Barbara, (eds) 2020. Making Marks: Australia and Afghanistan. WA: Vivid.
Gali Weiss, 2019 ‘Unfolding Projects’ visual essay. Arena Magazine, No.158, February.
Gali Weiss, 2016 ‘Diasporic Looking’. In Imaging Identity: Media, Memory, Portraiture in the Digital Age, ed. Melinda Hinkson. ACT: ANU E Press.
Gali Weiss, 2016 ‘Unfolding Projects: Afghan and Australian artists’ books.’ In Breaking the Boundaries: Australian Activists Tell their Stories, eds Yvonne Allen; Joy Noble. SA:Wakefield Press.
Weiss, Gali; Kameniar, Barbara; Tomczak, Matthias, (eds) 2013. Two Trees: Australian Artists'
Books to Afghanistan and Back. SA: SAWA.
Gali Weiss & Barbara Kameniar, 2012 ‘Unfolding Projects: Afghan and Australian artist’s books collaborations.’ In Intersections and Counterpoints: Proceedings of Impact 7, an International Multi-Disciplinary Printmaking Conference, edited by Luke Morgan. Melbourne: Monash University Publishing.
Maria Tamboukou and Gali Weiss, 2012 ‘Becoming an Artist: Life histories & visual images.’ In Oral History in the Visual Arts, eds Sandino L; Patington M. London: Berg Publications.
Gali Weiss, 2011 ‘Unfolding Projects: Australian-Afghan encounters through the artist’s book’.
Imprint, Vol. 46, No. 1, Autumn 2011, pp 24-25.
Gali Weiss, 2010 ‘Drawing the Affiliative Look’, Drawing Out 2010 Refereed Conference Publications, RMIT & University of Art, London.
Gali Weiss, 2010 ‘An Exchange of Energy’. Jewish Museum of Australia Journal, Vol. 15, No. 2, Sep 2010, pp 21-22.
Gali Weiss, 2009 Connected09 – Viewing Possibilities. Catalogue essay to Connected 09 exhibition,
Blackbox Theatre Gallery, Melbourne.
Gali Weiss, 2004 ‘Jenni Kamp: another turn of the kaleidoscope’. Imprint, Vol. 39, No. 4, Summer 2004, p.10
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
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Madelaine Rojahn, 2021. “Handkerchiefs twice marked: transcending boundaries with art.”
Article in Island, Vol. 162, July 2021.
Janice Breen-Burns, 2020. “Handkerchiefs offer a message of hope to the women of Kabul.” Feature article in Spectrum, The Age/Sydney Morning Herald, Sep 5.
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Amelia Walker, 2016. Book reviews: Three titles: Breaking Boundaries; The Transnational Story Hub; Surviving in my World.
Transnational Literature, Vol. 9 no. 1, November 2016.
http://fhrc.flinders.edu.au/transnational/home.html
Sally Sara, 2013. “A booklet that crosses continents.” Audio interview with Gali Weiss in The World Today, ABC Radio, Australia.
Tracey Avery, 2008 ‘Gali Weiss, The Anonymous Portrait’, Imprint, Vol. 43, No. 4, Summer
2008, p. 11.
Tracey Avery, 2008. The Anonymous Portrait, catalogue essay.
Robert Heather 2006, ‘Bookish: An exhibition of artists’ book works’, Imprint, Vol. 41, No. 4, Summer 2006, pp. 22-23.
Jazmina Cininas, 2001 ‘Review, Gali Weiss’, Art & Australia, Vol. 38, No. 4, June/July/August
2001, p. 631
Louise Adler, 1997 Audio Interview, Arts Today, ABC Radio National.
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